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female
age
30-35,
anonymous
writes:I've been experiencing something rather odd these past few months. I feel compelled to eat often (high-calorie food in particular) even though I can tell I'm not physically hungry; I don't know if I can call it comfort eating because I don't feel depressed as such, just kinda empty all the time. When I try distracting myself, nothing works to stop me raiding the fridge - apart from things that are related to sex in some way. For example, I'll start idling on an online magazine or something, and reading the "love and sex" articles will make the cravings vanish within a few moments. Or if I have the house to myself, doing something cheeky like stripping and dancing in front of my bedroom mirror works just as well. And I think about being intimate with my boyfriend a lot more than I used to. I'm a virgin and we're in an LDR, but he's coming to visit me very soon... I know my body desperately wants to go all the way, and emotionally I think I could handle it, but am I 100% ready mentally? I'm not sure.What I really want to know though is if there's a connection between my eating behaviour and my love/sex life. My brother once joked that I was so fond of chocolate to compensate for the fact that I "don't get any"; I laughed it off at the time but now I'm seriously wondering! What do you think? Many thanks in advance for any replies :)
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reader, angelDlite +, writes (24 July 2011):
 your brother is right! chocolate releases the same feel good chemicals in the brain as sex does. emotional emptiness cannot be filled with food. if you are lonely -seek company. if you are bored - find something to do, preferably get out doors, well away from the kitchen. the brain is not good at being able to tell the difference between hunger and thirst, so very often a nice drink of water is what you need.
if you feel like snacking, just relax for a minute and ask yourself 'am i really hungry?' think very carefully about the answer you give yourself. eat things slowly and mindfully, making sure you taste the food to get the ultimate enjoyment out of it and slow enough so that your brain senses that your stomach is full well before you have become stuffed with food
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